Visit southwestern orchards in Summer

Orchards in Vinh Long: Vinh Long has long been famous for its orchards, which offer all kinds of fruit in all four seasons. The most famous fruits here are Binh Minh pomelo, Binh Hoa Phuoc rambutan, Tam Binh orange, Ri 6 and Chin Hoa durian, sugar tangerine and Hoa Loc and Cat Chu mango.

Lai Thieu orchards: Located about 20km from Ho Chi MinhCity, Lai Thieu is the home to vast orchards of durian, jackfruit, sapodilla, custard-apple and other fruit. You can pick the fruit you want and taste them from the comfort of a swaying hammock in the garden.

Cai Be: About 70km from Ho Chi Minh City, Cai Be is not the biggest fruit-growing area in the Mekong Delta, but it is a popular destination of international tourists. Cai Be has famous fruit varieties like Hoa Loc mango, pomelo mango, dragon longan, king orange, honey orange and others. You should stay one night here to go shopping at the Cai Be Market and sightsee around the neighborhood.

Trung An orchards: Some 40km from Ho Chi Minh City’s center, Trung An orchards in Cu Chi District is the nearest place to enjoy fresh fruit and relax during the weekend. In addition to sightseeing, and enjoying the fresh fruits, you can fish in huts or taste delicious dishes.

Orchards in Vinh Kim: When referring to Vinh Kim in Chau Thanh District, Tien Giang Province, many people think of Lo Ren star apple. In addition to this famous star apple brand, you can also enjoy other unique fruits.

Long Khan: Orchards in Long Khanh, Dong Nai Province, are highlighted with ripe red rambutan trees along the roadsides. If you like, you can stop at any orchard to buy rambutan, mangosteen, durian or custard apple.

Nam Nhi: Nam Nhi is another name of Lam Ha Commune, Da Huoai, Lam Dong Province, with rambutan, jackfruit, durian and strawberry gardens. You can go camping and enjoy fruit in these orchards.

My Khanh: This is a large garden on four hectares of land located between the floating market of Cai Rang and Phong Dien, with over 20 varieties of fruit trees and ornamental plants. Upon arriving at My Khanh orchard, visitors feel the warmth and serenity of space, delicious sweetness of fruit and the peaceful atmosphere.

Cai Mo: The orchards in Cai Mon, Cho Lach District of Ben Tre Province are known for the mild climate all year round and delicious fruit like durian, rambutan, pomelo, mango, longan, plum, and others. Hai Hoa grapefruit and Chin Hoa durian are particularly noteworthy. You can spend two days here to explore the fascinating cuisines of Ben Tre.

The landscape of Nhan mountain

Traveling along the country, across Tuy Hoa city (Phu Yen province), visitors can see majesticrelic-cluster of Nhan mountain by Da Rang bridge.

 The bustling scene of Nguyen Tieu night at Nhan tower

As stated in some documents, Nhan mountain is 64m high above the sea level, the perimeter around the mountain is about more than 1 km long. The majority of different understanding-ways is the imagination of a winging-swallow image as viewed from a long distance, so the name NhanMountain was called. For ages, the relic-creature cluster in the mountain has been cared, restored and strictly conserved. Tourists visiting the mountain can feel a very nice, cool, friendly charming sight through the cool-clean-winding road leading to the mountain peak and the populations of ornamental creatures and ruins in the mountain.

In addition to the scenery and wonderful climate, up to Nhan Mountain, one will be able to visit the ancient Nhan tower located in the Cham-tower relics in Central region. Nhan tower, located at Nhan mountain peak, was built by Cham people in around the 12^th century. Overall, Nhan tower represents Cham people’s architectural art in the ancient Phu Yen land.

Besides, Nhan tower is a unique architecture, monument. The monument, located beside the road up the mountain, was inaugurated on April 1^st, 2007. This is a cultural construction invested and elaborately built by Phu Yen People’s government. The work includes a museum at the bottom, and white vertical bars above the rooftops, like foam waves and sails full of wind reaching far out to sea, and also like winging swallow from far away viewing.

Today, the scenic cluster of Nhan mountain, Da river become a symbol for Phu Yen province and Nhan tower has been recognized as an art-architecture monument at national level by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Standing on the mountain-top, tourists can easily see Tuy Hoa city’s panorama with blue sea, vast rice-fields, Da Rang river and majestic Chop Chai mountain or Da Bia peak from a long distance.

Source: Thanh Nien Online

King of Vietnam’s temple – King Dinh Tien Hoang’s

It’s now time to pay a visit to the famous King of Vietnam’s temple – King Dinh Tien Hoang’s. The temple is located in Truong Yen village, Truong Yen commune, Hoa Lu town, in a garden of 5 hectares wide. 

It faces the East, and stands in front of Ma Yen Mount, where King Dinh Tien Hoang’s tomb was located.
The temple was built in the 17th century, with a special architecture, the interior of which had an “I letter” shape, surrounded by a square land. Now you are standing at the 3-class mid-noon gate. You can go on to the next one, seeing a dragon bed and getting the second gate. Passing through one more gate and walking along the holy way will lead to the main house. In the middle of the house is one more stone dragon-bed, which is 1.8m long and 1.4m wide. Looking at the bed surface you can easily find sculptured dragon, shrimps, fishes, rats images which are of deep delicateness and skill.
This main house has 3 parts. The first one is the worshipping place with 5 rooms. The second is an incense burning room where they worshiped 4 important mandarins under Dinh dynasty. The third main part, the most important one, is separated to the second by a high door. Here you can witness there worshipping King Dinh Tien Hoang and his three sons.

You may have to admit that the temple is an original architectural work of art full of folk sculptures! It attracts tourists for so many valuable relics hidden in thick bricks, tilts, Buddhist prayer-book pillars, and more importantly its meaningful history of the first ancient capital of Vietnam.
Nearby you can find the Tomb of King Dinh Tien Hoang, which was situated on Ma Yen Mount, in front of his Temple. “Ma yen” means “back of a horse”, as seen from a far distance, it has the shape of a back of a horse. The tomb is in the sagging down post of the horse’s back. To reach up to the tomb, visitors must pass 150 rock steps. The tomb was built in 1840, under Ming Mang King reign.

Dalat -a undoubtedly beautiful tourist town

Dalat is undoubtedly a beautiful tourist town. The vast majority of visitors are both domestic and foreign tourists on short package tours, drawn by the scenery, vivid blue skies, fresh air, flower-filled parks, and local edible treatment.

Da Lat is extremely famous for mild weather. Thanks to the advantage of height and enclosing pine jungle, the town is featured with temperate climate, with an average temperature of 18oC – 21°C, highest as 30oC and lowest as 5°C.

What is more, Da Lat has two distinct seasons, the rainy and the sunny ones. The former is from May to October, and the former from November to April. Tourists should be prepared for sudden rains in sunny season, sometimes rocky ones.  Never in Da Lat could we ever catch a storm, which make it favorable for tourists to take any daytime leisure walk.

This pure land of romance was discovered by the French during their invasion in southern Vietnam. Before 1893, Lang Biang highlands, an extremely cool and fresh aired area, was the accommodation of the Viet highlanders. Yet there came the day the French would like to settle a convalescent zone in a European weather-like land in 1899. Of course, they could not miss Lang Biang Highlands then. Ever since the significant choice, Da Lat was later on built with all required French-style houses, villas, treatment places, and temperate flowers & plants, etc. This has step by step formulated today’s romantic and glamorous Da Lat, a clear mountainous air zone for escaping the heat and humidity of the coast and Saigon, or the today’s Hochiminh City.

It’s no easy at all for travellers to choose the initial visiting place in Da Lat for its widespread covering beauty. On a whole, Da Lat looks like a cross between Vietnam and the French Alps. As mentioned, most of its hotels and houses were built in French style. The town spreads across a series of pine-covered hills, with a small lake in the center, while surrounded by high peaks, creating a lovely scenery quite different from the rest of Vietnam. Temperatures are pleasantly warm by day, and quite cool at night, down to perhaps 10oC.

Today, Dalat is undoubtedly a beautiful tourist town. The vast majority of visitors are both domestic and foreign tourists on short package tours, drawn by the scenery, vivid blue skies, fresh air, flower-filled parks, and local edible treatment. Dalat is a favorite destination for company weekend outings, family get-aways, and most of all, honeymoons. For overseas visitors, it offers a chance to cool down, view a bit of the French legacy, and enjoy the atmosphere. Also, Da Lat is surrounded by some of the best mountain biking, hiking and canyoning opportunities in Vietnam. Da Lat’s high altitude of 1,500-2,000m and fertile landscape make it one among Vietnam’s premium agricultural areas, producing a variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers that do not grow in the lowlands. In markets as far north as Hanoi, vegetables and flower vendors will tout their “made in Da Lat” produce.
Whoever has come to Da Lat could never forget Xuan Huong Lake (H? Xuân Huong), which is located in center of town. Xuan Huong lake is now one of the main draws of Da Lat, and also where we can see honeymooners and locals strolling its banks. Side by side Xuan Huong Lake is Top-peg Hill (Ð?i Cù), where has grown up a vast golf ground. If you are fond of fresh flowers, Da lat Flower Park is your accurate choice. The park, around 7,000 sq.m2, is situated on top of the Top-peg Hill, northern bank of Xuan Huong lake, and full of species of beautiful colored flowers to be extremely well-fed by planters. Tourists are all interested in the Da Lat’s flower festival, bringing them to a flowerfully fresh heaven!

For couples, Valley of Love (Thung Lung Tình Yêu) is the premium place to go. Its special name derived from its romantic view of silence, grace and green. The other choice is Lake of Sorrow or Lake of Sighs (H? Than th?), whose name came from a tale of two lovers, one of whom committed suicide after the other was called up to serve in the army. The romantic and beautiful Tuyen Lam Lake (H? Tuy?n Lâm) (the lake where rivers, springs and forests meet), Prenn Falls, or Pongour are also worth visiting for their beauty and fun.

On the other hand, Da Lat is popular for French-style architecture. Examples are King Bao Dai’s Palace, Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Cao Ky’s villas, Hang Nga villas, and so forth. All of those should really be visited since they demonstrate the deeply special beauty and somehow culture of the old French.

Ganh Da Dia – Cliff of Stone Plates

Ganh Da Dia, in Tuy An district’s An Ninh Dong commune, is around 40 kilometres from vibrant Tuy Hoa city. At around 50m wide and over 200m long, Ganh Da Dia is an unparalleled venue in Vietnam.

 

Here, shiny black stones stand upright in columns. Linked tightly together, each stone has a hexagonal or octagonal-shape and is half underground and half floating in the whispering blue of the sea water.

Contiguous to Ganh Da Dia is a three kilometre beach fronted by clear blue sea water – an ideal place to set up an ocean-front upscale resort. Ganh Da Dia has a wild beauty and a pure environment, not yet affected by tourism operators.

Source:vietnamcharm.com

 

Ha Tien town - Kien Giang

From the 18th century, Ha Tien has been one of the crowded trading townships, a port full of ships from western and Asian countries. The trading shop and stalls of the Chinese people were spring up. Ha Tien sea is currently one of the beautiful landscapes with originated scene, quiet and romantic, a masterpiece gifted by nature.

About 93km from the main centre of Kien Giang city, Ha Tien is famous for the beautiful landscape and visited by many visitors. The mountain around Ha Tien is grandiose with green color like the partition from the sea and mountain.
Standing in the peak of the mountain, with one side is South China sea, and the other is Voi Phuc mountain, you could have an overview for the township with Vietnam travel guide. Behind the Binh Mountain, Thach Dong Cave is famous for the legend of the Thach Sanh man fight the monster expressed in the stalactites according to the imagination of the ancient people with many interesting points.
To the South, we could see Hon Chong (Spike Mountain), this is a mountain surrounded by the blue water and waves all day long like a story of the father and his child together defeating the evils of the sea.


Ha Tien has tens of landscape that is well known such as: Dong Ho An Nguyet, Binh San Diep Thuy, Thach Dong Thon Van, Loc Chi Thon Cu, etc. Next to the shore, there are some islands like Hai Tac (pirates) which is about 11km from the Mui Nai beach. Visitors could witness the coral, sea snail; enjoy the historical landscape on the boat, going fishing, water skiing, skyscraper, etc.


In the journey from the Hang Pagoda to some minutes on the canoe, you could come to Gia Long cave. You could also visit the other famous landscapes of Ha Tien such as temple of Nguyen Trung Truc, tomb of the general Le Kim Dinh, etc, that will give you the new adventurous feeling.
Coming to Ha Tien, visitors could enjoy the meat of bien mai grilled on the red charcoal. This is a species which appears in the 5m deep rock bench. The tail of bien mai is stick to the rock, and its body is vertical along the waves. This is a specialty of Ha Tien.

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